Benches. Theater houses. Galleries. Toilet seats. It seems like the arts world has been tagged with the name of Mr. and Mrs. Rich Person from top to bottom. Charles Isherwood of The New York Times wonders: Where are the anonymous donors? "Attending a performance can be like leafing through somebody else’s high school Read More
The classical-music world loves nothing more than a great composer’s anniversary. This year, the honors go to Mozart (his 250th) and Shostakovich, who’d be turning 100 had he survived his tormenters in the former Soviet Union.
In the yearlong burble of Mozart performances, nothing is likely to outshine the strobe-lit pianism of Mitsuko Uchida Read More
Lost in the soap-opera story line of New York Philharmonic’s near-divorce from Lincoln Center-its announcement earlier this year that it would decamp for Carnegie Hall, and its subsequent prodigal-son return earlier this month-was news of the center’s first major donation to its rebuilding efforts, a $16 million grant from the Alice Tully Foundation. The money Read More
The chairmen did it. The recent news that the New York Philharmonic’s much-ballyhooed plan to move to Carnegie Hall has gone up in smoke confirmed what I and other skeptics have been saying since the deal was announced (or, more accurately, leaked to The New York Times ) last June: It was never going to Read More
New York is facing a financial crisis of near-historic proportions as we stare at a $6 billion budget gap. That’s worse than anything David Dinkins had to confront back in the awful early 1990′s, but the mood around City Hall lacks urgency. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is understandably leery about tax increases, but he cannot close Read More
